Political Theory

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400878551
Total Pages : 630 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Book Synopsis Political Theory by : Arnold Brecht

Download or read book Political Theory written by Arnold Brecht and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this distinguished work Arnold Brecht, who served under more than a dozen German Chancellors and whose work in defense of democracy received recognition by the Adenauer government in 1953, surveys the philosophical and scientific foundations of political theory in the twentieth century. His wide-ranging treatise sweeps over the entire scope of this century's contributions, including the philosophical, juridical, scientific, sociological, methodological, and historical. The book is a pioneering effort toward an integrated presentation, a first attempt to offer a comprehensive modern political theory. The aim is both a systematic presentation and a full description of the recent genesis of thought. The pertinent teachings of representative writers-some from the past (from Hume and Kant to Darwin, Mill, and Marx) and most of the present century (from Peirce, James, Simmel, and Weber to Husserl, Dewey, Lasswell, Northrop, and Fuller) are analyzed. Dr. Brecht incorporates, chapter by chapter, his own contributions. Social scientists, philosophers, lawyers, and students of religion will find it a challenging guide, written with penetrating clarity and rich in fruitful suggestions. Originally published in 1959. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

A Humanist in Reformation Politics

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004414134
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Book Synopsis A Humanist in Reformation Politics by : Mads L. Jensen

Download or read book A Humanist in Reformation Politics written by Mads L. Jensen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-11-04 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first contextual account of the political philosophy and natural law theory of the German reformer Philipp Melanchthon (1497-1560). Mads Langballe Jensen presents Melanchthon as a significant political thinker in his own right and an engaged scholar drawing on the intellectual arsenal of renaissance humanism to develop a new Protestant political philosophy. As such, he also shows how and why natural law theories first became integral to Protestant political thought in response to the political and religious conflicts of the Reformation. This study offers new, contextual studies of a wide range of Melanchthon's works including his early humanist orations, commentaries on Aristotle's ethics and politics, Melanchthon's own textbooks on moral and political philosophy, and polemical works.

Systematic Politics

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000349284
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Book Synopsis Systematic Politics by : George E. Gordon Catlin

Download or read book Systematic Politics written by George E. Gordon Catlin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-23 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1962, Systematic Politics presents Catlin’s political theories and reviews the work of contemporaries within the field. Divided into two parts, Part One is focused on political science and explores areas such as definitions and functions, the theory of politics as hypothesis, freedom and authority, and different forms of government. Part Two centres on political philosophy, discussing topics such as community, society and the individual, and law and sovereignty. Systematic Politics will appeal to those with an interest in the history of political thought, political theory, and political philosophy.

Modern Political Theory

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ISBN 13 : 9780706913804
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (138 download)

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Book Synopsis Modern Political Theory by : Shanti Prasad Varma

Download or read book Modern Political Theory written by Shanti Prasad Varma and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Decade of Upheaval

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691213224
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Book Synopsis A Decade of Upheaval by : Dong Guoqiang

Download or read book A Decade of Upheaval written by Dong Guoqiang and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inhaltsverzeichnis: Prologue -- Factions -- Enter the Army -- Escalation -- Beijing Intervenes -- Forging Order -- Backlash -- The Final Struggle -- Troubled Decade.

Philosophizing Brecht

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004404503
Total Pages : 216 pages
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Download or read book Philosophizing Brecht written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-05-20 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology unites scholars from varied backgrounds with the notion that the theories and artistic productions of Bertolt Brecht are key missing links in bridging diverse discourses in social philosophy, theatre, consciousness studies, and aesthetics. It offers readers interdisciplinary perspectives that create unique dialogues between Brecht and important thinkers such as Althusser, Anders, Bakhtin, Benjamin, Godard, Marx, and Plato. While exploring salient topics such as consciousness, courage, ethics, political aesthetics, and representations of race and the body, it penetrates the philosophical Brecht seeing in him the never-ending dialectic—the idea, the theory, the narrative, the character that is never foreclosed. This book is an essential read for all those interested in Brecht as a socio-cultural theorist and for theatre practitioners. Contributors: Kevin S. Amidon, José María Durán, Felix J. Fuch, Philip Glahn, Jim Grilli, Wolfgang Fritz Haug, Norman Roessler, Jeremy Spencer, Anthony Squiers, Peter Zazzali.

The Weimar Republic Sourcebook

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520067745
Total Pages : 836 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (677 download)

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Book Synopsis The Weimar Republic Sourcebook by : Anton Kaes

Download or read book The Weimar Republic Sourcebook written by Anton Kaes and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduces (translated into English) contemporary documents or writings with an introduction to each section.

Man and the State

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Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813209050
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (9 download)

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Book Synopsis Man and the State by : Jacques Maritain

Download or read book Man and the State written by Jacques Maritain and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Of time-transcending value, this book is probably the most succinct and clearest statement of Thomistic political theory available to the English-language reader. Written during his exile from war-torn Europe, Man and the State is the fruit of Maritain's considerable learning as well as his reflections on his positive American experience and on the failure of regimes he closely encountered on the Continent."--Jude P. Dougherty, The Catholic University of America "The lectures that were the basis for Man and the State were delivered at the University of Chicago at a time when Maritain was still in the first enthusiasm of his participation in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. He devotes particular attention to the concept of rights, since, historically, rights theories were fashioned to supplant the natural law theory to which Maritain as a Thomist gives his allegiance. Maritain provides an ingenious and profound theory as to how natural law and natural rights can be complementary. For this reason alone it remains a fundamental contribution to political philosophy, but it is filled with other gems as well. Was Maritain too optimistic in his appraisal of modernity? Or have we unjustly lost the optimism that was his? Man and the State is an invitation to rethink the way we pose the basic questions of political philosophy."--Ralph McInerny, Jacques Maritain Center, University of Notre Dame ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jacques Maritain (1882-1973), distinguished French Catholic philosopher and writer, was the author of more than fifty books. A preeminent interpreter of the thought of Thomas Aquinas, Maritain was a professor of philosophy at the Institut Catholique de Paris, Columbia University, and Princeton University. He served as French Ambassador to the Vatican from 1945 to 1948. CONTENTS 1. The People and the State 2. The Concept of Sovereignty 3. The Problem of Means 4. The Rights of Man 5. The Democratic Charter 6. Church and State 7. The Problem of World Government

Prelude to Silence

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Prelude to Silence by : Arnold Brecht

Download or read book Prelude to Silence written by Arnold Brecht and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Aesthetics and Politics

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Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1788738586
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (887 download)

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Book Synopsis Aesthetics and Politics by : Theodor Adorno

Download or read book Aesthetics and Politics written by Theodor Adorno and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intense and lively debate on literature and art between thinkers who became some of the great figures of twentieth-century philosophy and literature. With an afterword by Fredric Jameson No other country and no other period has produced a tradition of major aesthetic debate to compare with that which unfolded in German culture from the 1930s to the 1950s. In Aesthetics and Politics the key texts of the great Marxist controversies over literature and art during these years are assembled in a single volume. They do not form a disparate collection but a continuous, interlinked debate between thinkers who have become giants of twentieth-century intellectual history.

Cultural Resistance Reader

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Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781859846599
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (465 download)

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Book Synopsis Cultural Resistance Reader by : Stephen Duncombe

Download or read book Cultural Resistance Reader written by Stephen Duncombe and published by Verso. This book was released on 2002 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Diggers seizing St. George Hill in 1649 to Hacktivists staging virtual sit-ins in the 21st century, from the retributive fantasies of Robin Hoods to those of gangsta rappers, culture has long been used as a political weapon. This expansive and carefully crafted reader brings together many of the classic texts that help to define culture as a tool of resistance. With concise, illuminating introductions throughout, it presents a range of theoretical and historical writings that have influenced contemporary debate, and includes a number of new activist authors published here for the first time. Cultural Resistance Reader is both an invaluable scholarly resource and a tool for political activists. But most importantly it will inspire everyday readers to resist.

Shock to the System

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691217599
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Book Synopsis Shock to the System by : Michael K. Miller

Download or read book Shock to the System written by Michael K. Miller and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How violent events and autocratic parties trigger democratic change How do democracies emerge? Shock to the System presents a novel theory of democratization that focuses on how events like coups, wars, and elections disrupt autocratic regimes and trigger democratic change. Employing the broadest qualitative and quantitative analyses of democratization to date, Michael Miller demonstrates that more than nine in ten transitions since 1800 occur in one of two ways: countries democratize following a major violent shock or an established ruling party democratizes through elections and regains power within democracy. This framework fundamentally reorients theories on democratization by showing that violent upheavals and the preservation of autocrats in power—events typically viewed as antithetical to democracy—are in fact central to its foundation. Through in-depth examinations of 139 democratic transitions, Miller shows how democratization frequently follows both domestic shocks (coups, civil wars, and assassinations) and international shocks (defeat in war and withdrawal of an autocratic hegemon) due to autocratic insecurity and openings for opposition actors. He also shows how transitions guided by ruling parties spring from their electoral confidence in democracy. Both contexts limit the power autocrats sacrifice by accepting democratization, smoothing along the transition. Miller provides new insights into democratization’s predictors, the limited gains from events like the Arab Spring, the best routes to democratization for long-term stability, and the future of global democracy. Disputing commonly held ideas about violent events and their effects on democracy, Shock to the System offers new perspectives on how regimes are transformed.

Performing Brecht

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134895410
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Book Synopsis Performing Brecht by : Margaret Eddershaw

Download or read book Performing Brecht written by Margaret Eddershaw and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-08-27 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performing Brecht is an unprecedented history of the productions of Brecht's plays in Britain over forty years. Margaret Eddershaw surveys all aspects of Brecht in performance, from his methodologies to his place in postmodernist theatre and beyond. She focuses on key productions by directors including George Devine, Sam Wanamaker, William Gaskill, Howard Davies, John Dexter and Richard Eyre. Eddershaw also provides three in-depth case studies of productions in the 1990s, incorporating her own exclusive access to the rehearsals and in-depth interviews with directors and performers. The case studies are: * The Good Person of Sechuan, directed by Deborah Warner and starring Fiona Shaw; * Mother Courage, directed by Philip Prowse and starring Glenda Jackson; * The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui, directed by Di Trevis and starring Antony Sher

Crisis of the Strauss Divided

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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1442217138
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Book Synopsis Crisis of the Strauss Divided by : Harry V. Jaffa

Download or read book Crisis of the Strauss Divided written by Harry V. Jaffa and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2012-08-26 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Leo Strauss (1899-1973) was the greatest mind in political philosophy in the twentieth century, and possibly in other centuries as well. That, I am well aware, is a judgment I share with very few, if any.” So writes Harry V. Jaffa in his epilogue to this volume. Including an extensive unpublished essay entitled “Straussian Geography: A Memoir and Commentary,” Crisis of the Strauss Divided brings together a collection of Jaffa’s published arguments defending and explaining that judgment, written during the 40 years since Strauss’s death. The volume includes arguments of those who have disagreed with Jaffa about Strauss's teaching and about the nature of political philosophy. These wide ranging exchanges explore many of the great themes of political philosophy and, in particular, the implications of Strauss's thinking for America and modern civilization.

The Education of Arnold Hitler

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Publisher : Unbridled Books
ISBN 13 : 1932961038
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (329 download)

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Book Synopsis The Education of Arnold Hitler by : Marc Estrin

Download or read book The Education of Arnold Hitler written by Marc Estrin and published by Unbridled Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Estrin's second novel is the story of a young man who stumbles through the second half of the 20th century bearing a most unfortunate name.

Sound System

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Publisher : Left Book Club
ISBN 13 : 9780745399300
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (993 download)

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Book Synopsis Sound System by : Dave Randall

Download or read book Sound System written by Dave Randall and published by Left Book Club. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of one musician's journey to discover how music can be used as a political tool, for good and bad.

The Logic of International Relations

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Publisher : Little Brown
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis The Logic of International Relations by : Walter S. Jones

Download or read book The Logic of International Relations written by Walter S. Jones and published by Little Brown. This book was released on 1982 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with the premise that international relations must be approached from a multinational perspective, this text introduces students to the idea that transactions between nations are behavioral rather than structural. Building on this perceptual analysis approach, the text discusses how the political consciousness of key nations influences international events, public opinion, and policy choices.